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In this speech on the history of Linux from 2001 [1], Linus makes it clear that he views the viral nature of the GPL to be a crucial component of Linux's success. He likens it to allowing evolution to take place. I'm not sure when this viewpoint took hold for him, but it would suggest that he likes the most fundamental part of the license (though he disagrees with much of the politics).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w

Pertaining to the editor wars.

There's a great (long) video about Linus and Linux history from 2001. Watch the whole thing if you can—after the 40 minute mark is especially worth it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w

55 minutes in someone asks him, "What editor and mail reader do you use?" He smirks, "The editor is microemacs, the best editor ever made. And vi and GNU Emacs suck, suck."

⬐ wglb

Well, it is not much of a war. I know perhaps 8 people that use uemacs (I don't any longer--quit when I no longer was using Coherent or Atari ST), so if it is a war, only Linus' weight makes it even a battle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w#t=22m12s

http://www.mach-linux.org/reviews/justforfun.html

Even better, a video of Linus Torvalds speaking on the history of Linux at the Computer Museum in 2001:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w